Introduction

This information was pulled from a few other pages on the Alpine Wiki website, see links, along with the websites for the particular packages. It is a suggestion/step by step instruction guide.

You might be wondering, why would anyone want to run Web and Email services off a Linux install that runs in ram? Good question. With Vservers we can run the host in Memory and do all sorts of things with the guests. Put the guests on DAS in the host machine or do raided iSCSI for the guest. This way if your disks start going bad or drop off entirely you most likely will be able to get at the data from a running system.

user1@example.net::1004:1004::/var/spool/vhosts/example.net/:/bin/false::
user2@example.net::1004:1004::/var/spool/vhosts/example.net/:/bin/false::
user@domain::uid : gid of found in virtual_uid_maps::location of maildir:shell::